China-U.S. arms race could be coming to Asia-Pacific

Oct. 11, 2012

Written by

Xiaoxiong Yi

Strategic competition between China and the United States in Asia-Pacific is intensifying, with Beijing's growing capability to bully America's allies in Asia, block U.S. military presence in the East and South China seas and cut off U.S. access to parts of the global commons in possible pursuit of regional hegemony.

The United States is fighting back.

"The U.S. military strategy underpinning the Obama administration's 'pivot' to Asia," wrote Walter Ladwig at University of Oxford, "is known in Pentagon circles as 'Air-Sea Battle.' It depends upon the long-range capabilities of the ...